IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21225 accession number: C.711-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Eight lobed baluster jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar is moulded in eight lobes, with a short neck, rounded, sloping shoulders tapering to foot, and a flat, glazed, recessed base. A band of key-fret pattern decorates the neck, and the shoulders have a band of petal-shaped lappets. The lobed body has an over-all design of tendrilled vine gourds with four tree rats gnawing at the fruit. Above the foot is a two-lined border and a band of petal-shaped lappets. title: jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Evision & Co., St. Mary Axe, July 1924, for £2.10s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21225 SUBJECTS ------------------- rats fruit gourds gnawing rats fruit gourds gnawing TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded in eight lobes, decorated in underglaze-blue moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: export ware DATING ------ creation date: 1570 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1570 creation date latest: 1630 culture: Ming culture: 16th Century-17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 17 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- The Wares of the Ming Dynasty Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: catalogue of a Memorial exhibition --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_711_1991_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_711_1991_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_711_1991_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_711_1991_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_711_1991_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_711_1991_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_711_1991_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_711_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_711_1991_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels